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Nat Rev Chem
; 7(12): 821-822, 2023 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37968353
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Early Child Dev Care
; 187(2): 274-283, 2017 02 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28392619
ABSTRACT
Early years science education is not science, but a curricular construction designed to induct young children into a range of ideas and practices related to the natural world. While inquiry-based learning is an important approach to this, it is not of itself unique to science and there are a range of logico-mathematical constructions that come closer to the essence of science. In this paper we discuss just three: empirical question-asking, transgressive play, and good thinking. The challenge, of course is to induct early years practitioners to a different way of shaping early science.